News Releases

All of the latest news about our university. (by topic)

  • UB Program Will Bring Diversity to Biomedical and Behavioral Science
    5/29/12
    The University at Buffalo has been awarded nearly $2 million from the National Institutes of Health to fund the education of 20 new biomedical and behavioral scientists from underrepresented groups between now and 2016.
  • First Female Native American Earns PhD in Engineering at UB
    5/29/12
    Seeing the Rocky Mountains usually tops the list of things to do when visiting Colorado. Not for Shannon Seneca, who vacationed there after graduating high school 15 years ago. Upon landing in Denver, she headed straight for the Rocky Flats Plant, a former nuclear weapons production facility.
  • Wallenda's High-Wire Walk: Experts Weigh in on Water Plumes, Crowd Psychology and Angry Falcons
    5/29/12
    On June 15, high-wire artist Nik Wallenda will attempt to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope -- the first such attempt in more than 100 years. University at Buffalo experts are available to discuss the nature of such spectacles, their role in popular culture, the Niagara mist plume, crowd psychology and the kinds of risks involved in this venture.
  • UB Releases Statement Regarding Shale Resources and Society Institute
    5/25/12
    On May 15, the institute released its first report, "Environmental Impacts During Marcellus Shale Drilling: Causes, Impacts and Remedies." In the days since, some criticisms of the authors' conclusions have been raised. UB will examine all relevant concerns, in accordance with the university's strong commitment to academic and research excellence.
  • Rewarding Excellence: Dental School Dean Receives Oral Medicine's Highest Academic Honor
    5/25/12
    Michael Glick, DMD, professor of oral medicine and dean of the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine, has been presented with the highest academic award given by the American Academy of Oral Medicine (AAOM), conferred at their 66th annual meeting in April.
  • Talking Works: UB Professor Develops Method to Analyze Creative Problem Solving
    5/24/12
    Talk -- if it's the right kind -- can increase creativity, leading students to create useful, new ideas that solve problems, a University at Buffalo professor has found by using a statistical tool that he invented.
  • Kaleida Health and University at Buffalo Officially Open Gates Vascular Institute/Clinical and Translational Research Center
    5/24/12
    The effort to transform Buffalo into a world-class health care destination and expand the University at Buffalo's (UB) campus in downtown Buffalo took another major step forward today as Kaleida Health and UB opened a new 10-story vascular institute and research building.
  • Central Library Exhibition of Proposed Medical School Designs Calls for Public Input
    5/23/12
    The Central Branch of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library will host an exhibition of work by four elite international architectural teams produced for the competition to design the new downtown University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • Historian Explores Overseas Racial Battles of Iconic American Boxer Jack Johnson
    5/22/12
    A new book about cocky, flamboyant, subversive boxing champion Jack Johnson -- the first black man to take the heavyweight crown -- goes beyond his infamous battles with Jim Crow, the seven-year search for a "Great White Hope" to defeat him, and even his unjust conviction under the Mann Act against white slave trafficking.
  • Plaintiffs Face Greater Obstacles in Discrimination Suits, Study Shows
    5/22/12
    University at Buffalo Sociology Professors Ellen Berrey, PhD, and Steve G. Hoffman, PhD, have co-authored a study that shows plaintiffs' limited resources and tumultuous experiences in employment discrimination lawsuits lead them to see this litigation as profoundly unfair.